ping

English translation: a strong heartbeat

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Charlie Bavington: It's hard to actually disagree with someone else's opinion about a word used in an unusual way (to feel a 'ping'?!?), but your description is what I would call a "jolt", which to me is stronger than a "ping" !! Just a thought !

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nyamuk: I agree with Charlie, for me at least, a pinging heart is a misfiring heart, not a strong one, think of automobile pre-detonation, or the rapid shallow heart beat of a tourist who bends down to pick up his dropped cigarette at a high elevation overlook.

Explanation:If it's not a typo for "pang", then, contrary to some others, I'd be inclined to suggest that this is a very slight (not at all deep), very brief (does not last long at all), feeling of some emotion, not deep at all, that is gone as soon as it arrives.
This is what it suggests to me, at any rate.

Explanation:1.Absent more context I say assume its a typo, Kudoz should go to to Pike for that, or just misuse of 'pang.'

2.If it is intended to be ping not pang maybe its something that doesn't' rise to the occasion of a heart pang. That is to say ping is to pang as a bit is to a bite

3.There is the term ping loaned from IT. A ping is when you send a data packet out across the network to a remote computer to see how long it takes to come back, a sounding if you like. People use the expression ping to mean 'check up on someone' You 'ping' them to see if they are still there. I could see it used also to mean to take a sounding on a friends emotional well being. I am not willing to commit to that for this example because there is so little context, but given a supporting style of expression it makes perfect sense.

Explanation:A reaction, like when you get a sudden sharp peak on a flat line reading.
A sudden bolt of happiness or realisation (like those cartoons where a character suddenly gets a light bulb over their head that 'ping' is switched on - Eureka!)
A positive buzz.

Here is a comprehensive link of meanings of ping, that may or may not help!

A quantum packet of happiness. People who are very happy tend to
exude pings; furthermore, one can intentionally create pings and aim
them at a needy party (e.g., a depressed person). This sense of
ping may appear as an exclamation; \"Ping!\" (I\'m happy; I am emitting
a quantum of happiness; I have been struck by a quantum of
happiness). The form \"pingfulness\", which is used to describe
people who exude pings, also occurs. (In the standard abuse of
language, \"pingfulness\" can also be used as an exclamation, in which
case it\'s a much stronger exclamation than just \"ping\"!). Oppose
blargh.